Children and death in the Bronze and early Iron Age Aegean

Gallou, Chrysanthi

Abstract

The study of children and childhood remains largely marginalised in the archaeology of the prehistoric Aegean. Thus, this study aims to make Mycenaean children visible in archaeological research by discussing the treatment of non-adults at death in mainland Greece during the Bronze and Early Iron Age, with focus placed on grave types, grave furnishings, funerary and post-funerary rites and commemoration, and by highlighting the response of local communities to the death of their unfortunate little members, through the documentation of chronological and regional variations in a long perspective.

Citation

Gallou, C. (2020). Children and death in the Bronze and early Iron Age Aegean. In L. Beaumont, M. Dillon, & N. Harrington (Eds.), Childhood in antiquity: perspectives and experiences of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean. Routledge

• Acceptance Date: Mar 3, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Dec 31, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Deposit Date: Apr 6, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 1, 2022
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Rewriting antiquity
• Book Title: Childhood in antiquity: perspectives and experiences of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean
• Chapter Number: 31
• ISBN: 9781138780866
• Keywords: archaeology; childhood; death rites; Aegean; Greece; prehistory
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/918668
• Publisher URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315542812-36/children-death-bronze-age-early-iron-age-greece-chrysanthi-gallou?context=ubx&refId=fa2656ea-3c21-4c07-99f4-01743cf5cd67
• Related Public URLs: https://www.routledge.com/Childhood-in-Antiquity-Perspectives-and-Experiences-of-Childhood-in-the/Beaumont-Dillon-Harrington/p/book/9781138780866; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315542812
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Childhood in Antiquity Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean, on 05/01/2019, available online: .https://www.routledge.com/Childhood-in-Antiquity-Perspectives-and-Experiences-of-Childhood-in-the/Beaumont-Dillon-Harrington/p/book/9781138780866